I’m sitting here watching the devoutly and somewhat psychotically anticipated arrival of David Beckham to our newly bandwagon ‘soccer country.’ His team, the Los Angeles Galaxy is squaring off against the touted England powerhouse, and his former strip, Chelsea.
I find it both dangerous and disappointing that in two very short weeks we have as a country all but accepted this man into what can only be described as American royalty.
You might think me hypocritical, seeing as how I seem to doling out my reaming of this Adidas-inspired collective American affection for one man, from, of all places, in front of the tele, but, I testify that my watching, other than the simple truth that I enjoy watching futbol (both grandparents are immigrants, and as such, I grew up watching it) was much like the way we attempt to study something.
I remember in my high school, during my Communications courses, we were assigned to watch any form of media and look for sexually explicit patterns/innuendos therein. I strayed from the seemingly ‘golden opportunity’ that lit up every guy’s face at the thought of being able to watch a porno for homework, and instead decided to watch chewing gum advertisements. What I found unfortunately wasn’t too far from what my male counterparts sunk their eyes into. Nevertheless, the point is, I was sitting in front of the tele during the Beckham hour so as to watch how America was watching. Read the rest of this entry »
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